counted upon

He can be counted upon to offer just the facts, whatever Roker or de Blasio may have tweeted.

Mitt Romney can always be counted upon—for intellectual dishonesty.

She can be counted upon to pursue this case to the most just conclusion.

But Ma'ame Pelagie felt sure of twenty years of life before her, and counted upon as many more for her sister.

We counted upon pushing on rapidly, but the African mules were a sorry lot, and could make but little headway in the sandy tracks.

And now, where was all my heroic spirit and resignation, which I had counted upon to meet sudden death?

And when I took a ticket for a raffle, I hardly counted upon winning this particularly gaudy sofa-cushion.

As these visions recurred, he thought bitterly that he never had counted upon an hour of trial like the present.